ECO, Inc. v. City of Elkhorn

¶ 1. ECO, Incorporated appeals from a judgment and orders of the circuit court ruling that ECO's two requests for records to the City of Elkhorn, filed pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), were not open records requests pursuant to Wis. Stat. §§ 19.31 through 19.37 (1999-2000) 1 and thus not actionable via a writ of mandamus. ECO argues that the two requests qualified as requests under Wisconsin open records law despite the mistaken reference to FOIA. We agree that the two requests required, at the very least, a response from the City. We therefore reverse the judgment and…